What Is the "Sick Role" in Approaching How Societies Handle

What is the "sick role" in approaching how societies handle health care and illness?

A) The benefits to society added when people are faced with illness or injury such as providing jobs for health care workers and pharmaceutical developers.
B) The example set by patients with chronic illness or injury to convince others to avoid unhealthy or unsafe behaviors.
C) People with illnesses take on a character or part, in a sense, and they are not held to the same behavioral standards or obligations when sick.
D) The dysfunction caused when people are dishonest about being sick and are actually healthy.